WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.040 --> 00:00:03.879 It's the Internet. You're busy. Let's do this for August twenty five, 2 00:00:04.160 --> 00:00:06.839 twenty twenty three. For the next hour or so, let me help you 3 00:00:06.919 --> 00:00:11.119 sort through the world of gaming on gamess Mornings Live with Me Jeff Grubb. 4 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:14.800 Today, Excite Black sixty four is actually the best game of the year two 5 00:00:14.839 --> 00:00:18.280 thousand. But first please join me and welcome me today's co host to Games 6 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:21.320 Mornings. It's Emma Fife. Everybody, Emma, how are you doing. 7 00:00:22.120 --> 00:00:27.800 I'm surviving, you know, just out here vibe in living my life. 8 00:00:28.559 --> 00:00:34.439 Yesterday was the launch of Pumpkin Spice, returning to Starbucks for the fall season, 9 00:00:34.840 --> 00:00:40.799 and as interesting and cool as I pretend to be, I am very 10 00:00:40.880 --> 00:00:44.600 basic that that might be playing for everybody. I hope it's not. Oh 11 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:52.799 man, that is ASSARQ being like, we don't want to hear about Pumpkin 12 00:00:52.880 --> 00:01:00.719 Spice. Okay, do you guys hear that music? I think so. 13 00:01:00.799 --> 00:01:03.479 Yeah. It's my first podcast, everybody. I tried to turn off my 14 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:07.120 speaker because of the notifications playing through there, and for whatever, we were 15 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:11.120 complaining about computer audio before the show started. For whatever, It's like, 16 00:01:11.159 --> 00:01:12.879 well, you you're turning off your speaker, So clearly you want us to 17 00:01:12.879 --> 00:01:17.719 play this video that was paused in another tab and another browser that you can't 18 00:01:17.719 --> 00:01:21.480 even find. I'm not really the gate caught it at something. I do 19 00:01:21.599 --> 00:01:25.439 that truly all the time, though, where it's like I will have because 20 00:01:25.439 --> 00:01:27.879 I always have a lot of tabs open, because especially if I'm like working 21 00:01:27.879 --> 00:01:30.280 out a script or something, it's like I'm researching things, but then I'm 22 00:01:30.359 --> 00:01:34.719 also you know, trying to keep track of what's on my calendar and my 23 00:01:34.719 --> 00:01:37.000 email and blah blah blah. I was have a ton of tabs open, 24 00:01:37.519 --> 00:01:41.680 and a lot of the time I do like bring up a little YouTube low 25 00:01:41.719 --> 00:01:45.159 fire girl situation because I like to listen to that when I research and right, 26 00:01:45.239 --> 00:01:48.319 sure, yeah, but then but truly all the time, I will 27 00:01:48.359 --> 00:01:52.519 like start hearing some weird ad from somewhere and I have no idea here. 28 00:01:52.560 --> 00:01:55.959 It is. That is that it wasn't God saying when we got the little 29 00:01:55.959 --> 00:01:57.920 speaker things showing up in the tabs, You're like, okay, that helps 30 00:01:57.959 --> 00:02:00.599 find it. But yeah, you're like, okay, that one's clearly playing 31 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:05.879 sounds, huh, and that helped me there. It's that was people couldn't 32 00:02:05.959 --> 00:02:07.639 hear it, but it was Joe Cocker. Uh, you can leave your 33 00:02:07.639 --> 00:02:12.560 hat on chip tune cover because I'm a very cool person. There you go. 34 00:02:14.039 --> 00:02:15.000 But yeah, I mean, you know how you've been otherwise, and 35 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:20.000 but we've had we haven't had you on for a little bit. I've been 36 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:25.599 good. I was just on a little vacation with my family, all my 37 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:30.319 my mom, all of her brothers and sisters, well brother and sisters were 38 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:34.000 there. She's one of five, so I got to see a lot of 39 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:37.919 extended family for the first time in a long time. Got to meet my 40 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:43.439 niece in person for the first time, so that was very exciting. Yeah, 41 00:02:43.439 --> 00:02:46.439 it was a It was a nice, nice little trip to the coast 42 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:50.599 of Maine. Uh, didn't really do a whole lot, just kind of 43 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:53.039 chilled to hung out with my cousins and uh yeah it was good. Yeah, 44 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:55.599 that's sounds like a great time. All right, we're gonna get to 45 00:02:55.599 --> 00:02:58.719 this mess. Before we do, we're gonna explain what we do here. 46 00:02:58.759 --> 00:03:01.120 Most week days, I GREB will help peace your gaming life back together. 47 00:03:01.199 --> 00:03:05.960 That includes breaking news and maybe even some of our own original reporting. For 48 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:08.039 all these topics, I'll get the input of a bona fide expert who will 49 00:03:08.039 --> 00:03:12.560 make Me look smart? If you're watching live on Twitch Welcome, You can 50 00:03:12.599 --> 00:03:15.159 always listen to the show later on podcast feeds by searching for Game Mess Mornings, 51 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:20.120 or find the RSS on giant bomb dot com. You can also catch 52 00:03:20.120 --> 00:03:24.240 the show later with chapters and timestamps on YouTube. Hello YouTube. All right, 53 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:27.240 we have a lot to get into, so let's start the morning Mess 54 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:30.080 with Excite Bike sixty four is coming to Nintendo Switch Online next week. This 55 00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:34.719 is from Nintendo Everything. A new N sixty four game is making its way 56 00:03:34.759 --> 00:03:38.280 to Nintendo Switch Online in the form of Excite Bike sixty four. It will 57 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:42.199 be available starting August thirty I as part of the Services expansion pack tire. 58 00:03:43.080 --> 00:03:45.319 They provide a bunch of information about it, but you know, it's the 59 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:47.680 sequel to Excite Bike for the NS on the N sixty four, But it's 60 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:53.240 definitely in that same vein as the Wave Race and ten eighty and Nintendo's Extreme 61 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:54.800 sports games that came out on the N sixty four, where it's heavy on 62 00:03:54.840 --> 00:04:00.599 the physics simulation, heavy on actually a pretty technical technical game, really heavy 63 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:03.840 on power slides and hitting the boost or the turbo right at the top of 64 00:04:03.879 --> 00:04:08.000 the ramps. And then if you pull back, you'll stay in the air 65 00:04:08.039 --> 00:04:10.520 longer. And there's all these really great ideas that make it a ton of 66 00:04:10.520 --> 00:04:14.120 fun but also very difficult. And I really loved it at the time, 67 00:04:14.199 --> 00:04:15.480 and it's one of those games I've gone back to a bunch and it still 68 00:04:15.519 --> 00:04:20.439 holds up. So I'm excited about this emma where you like Nintendo Switch Online 69 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:24.680 and the support like something like in sixty four is getting on the expansion packed 70 00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:30.839 here. You know, I think there's a lot of good offerings on the 71 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:33.720 N sixty four Expansion pack. By and large, I find that, you 72 00:04:33.720 --> 00:04:36.079 know, when you go back to those games, a lot of it really 73 00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:41.040 is hinging on nostalgia. And that's not a bad thing, like that's the 74 00:04:41.079 --> 00:04:43.600 point of it. But at the same time, it was really interesting because 75 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:46.600 again when I was on vacation, and granted this was on an actual N 76 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:53.079 sixty four, so we were out with my partner and his sister and their 77 00:04:53.160 --> 00:04:55.639 kids because they happened to be in Maine at the same time as us. 78 00:04:55.639 --> 00:04:58.800 Swim met up with them and at this like restaurant that we went to, 79 00:04:58.839 --> 00:05:01.800 they had an N sixty four set up in they had like a little gaming 80 00:05:01.879 --> 00:05:05.240 room and it literally just had an N sixty four, and so he was 81 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:10.439 attempting to play Mario Kart sixty four. This, you know, this eight 82 00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:15.160 year old kid, who of course has played Mario Kart eight Deluxe on the 83 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:19.879 switch, Mario Kart sixty four is so hard like that. The thing is 84 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:25.560 is like you go back to these older games and you don't quite realize how 85 00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:29.879 many sort of quality of life improvements games have had over the oh yeah, 86 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:32.399 over the years, and so you go into it being like, oh, 87 00:05:32.439 --> 00:05:34.959 I still play Mario Kart all the time. I loved this when I was 88 00:05:34.959 --> 00:05:36.920 a kid. I'm still going to be great at this, and you just 89 00:05:36.959 --> 00:05:43.839 like immediately drive into a wall. And so again it's it's like, I 90 00:05:43.879 --> 00:05:47.839 think that there is a lot of value to these nostalgia titles, and I 91 00:05:47.879 --> 00:05:56.160 think almost part of the fun is going back and discovering how kind of difficult 92 00:05:56.360 --> 00:06:00.360 they were due to some of the limitations that existed at the time that don't 93 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:05.040 exist anymore. So again, it's I'm sort of of two minds about the 94 00:06:05.079 --> 00:06:09.959 whole, uh, you know N sixty four online thing. Again, fully 95 00:06:09.959 --> 00:06:12.839 in support of hey, it's like cool to go and be able to play 96 00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:15.720 these things again that you did play, and obviously they're adding a lot of 97 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:19.000 titles to it that make it very appealing. But at the same time it's 98 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:23.879 there is the frustration if you take something like a Majora's Mask and it's like, 99 00:06:24.120 --> 00:06:27.800 there was this amazing version of Majora's Mask for the Nintendo DS that made 100 00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:30.040 it way more playable than the N sixty four version, But what you get 101 00:06:30.079 --> 00:06:32.759 is the N sixty four version because they can't figure out how to do the 102 00:06:32.839 --> 00:06:36.199 dual touch screen, right, they're not going to or they're not going to 103 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:40.680 do the work to sort of adapt it to a sight not at least not 104 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:43.879 for Nintendo Switch Online. Right for the subscript service, they might do it 105 00:06:43.920 --> 00:06:48.920 and it sell it to you again totally and yeah, but at the same 106 00:06:48.959 --> 00:06:53.319 time, the thing that's good about these services is if you sort of look 107 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:59.480 back at the annals of gaming history, I think it's something like seventy five 108 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:03.879 in that I be a modest guests, percent of games are just basically lost 109 00:07:03.879 --> 00:07:11.240 to history. And so with these subscription services, these games are still getting 110 00:07:11.240 --> 00:07:16.959 a chance to exist and be remembered at the very least. Yeah, and 111 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:20.480 excited by sixty four is one that's like I think most people didn't even try 112 00:07:20.480 --> 00:07:24.800 it at the time, and it's uh and and so it's one it's like, 113 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:26.720 hey, I'm glad it's going to get a chance of spotlight. You 114 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:30.199 were mentioned like the the anachronistic ideas that were in a lot of these games, 115 00:07:30.279 --> 00:07:33.279 and Excite by sixty four definitely has that, but it was in the 116 00:07:33.560 --> 00:07:38.920 it's in this direction of it's hard because they were They're like, we have 117 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:42.480 the ability now to play around with physics. We are just that we're going 118 00:07:42.519 --> 00:07:45.399 to make that the game. The game is going to be how does the 119 00:07:45.399 --> 00:07:48.319 bike interact with the dirt and and and then how how does the bike interact 120 00:07:48.319 --> 00:07:51.879 with gravity? And it's like okay for me at the time, and still 121 00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:55.040 to this day, that is the stuff that like, really, you know, 122 00:07:55.120 --> 00:07:57.360 it gets me going, I'm like that, yeah, that's why I 123 00:07:57.439 --> 00:08:01.560 like playing around in that in that space, and and Nintendo was really nailing 124 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:05.360 that at the time, but they don't actually make many games like that anymore, 125 00:08:05.480 --> 00:08:09.360 or like ten eight another example when it's online where it's like it's super 126 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:13.240 hard to actually do the ten eighty. And since then, we've had SSX 127 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:16.759 and people love SSX because right, you're just gonna feel cool no matter what, 128 00:08:16.879 --> 00:08:18.920 and ten eight, it's like you really have to work at it. 129 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:22.120 You know. The game that I was thinking about the other day was because 130 00:08:22.120 --> 00:08:24.079 I was a PlayStation kid, our neighbors had n ST four, so we 131 00:08:24.079 --> 00:08:28.160 would, you know, go over there and play all the multiplayer you know, 132 00:08:28.360 --> 00:08:33.639 Golden Eye Smash, Yeah, Mario Party Mario, Yeah exactly. But 133 00:08:33.960 --> 00:08:37.879 uh, I was really into extreme sport racing games on the PlayStation. I 134 00:08:37.919 --> 00:08:41.399 was thinking about the game Jet Moto. Did you ever play? Oh? 135 00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:43.519 Yeah, yeah, like Jet Moto. I always when when Wave Race was 136 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:46.399 coming in four online, I was like, Jet Moto, shit, and 137 00:08:46.600 --> 00:08:48.639 it's no Wave Race. But it was like, no, Jet Moto was 138 00:08:48.639 --> 00:08:52.120 fun. No Jet Modo rocks. But yeah, but I was thinking about 139 00:08:52.120 --> 00:08:56.039 that too, because that was another one where it was like playing with the 140 00:08:56.080 --> 00:09:00.159 physics and and you know, a lot of it was like okay, like 141 00:09:00.200 --> 00:09:03.879 how heavy is this is this character? Or what's their max acceleration? What's 142 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:07.559 there you know, sort of pick up speed. Uh So there was a 143 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:13.559 lot of of of video game physics inspired by the rail world to play a 144 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:16.600 round with, yes, and it's and since then it's like developers and publishers. 145 00:09:16.600 --> 00:09:20.440 I'm like, you know, that's for a certain group of people, 146 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:22.919 and now we now that we've like experiment with that and we see about that 147 00:09:22.919 --> 00:09:26.039 how that works. It's like when we put out games that are about you 148 00:09:26.080 --> 00:09:31.159 know, riding a bike on dirt or you know, riding a watercraft really 149 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:35.200 fast, we're gonna pull back on the more accurate physics or like trying to 150 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:39.279 be truthful to physics at the very least, and instead we're gonna like make 151 00:09:39.320 --> 00:09:41.120 sure it's our Katie fun for most games, and of course the sims are 152 00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:45.600 out there, but it's like, I don't know those in sixty four games 153 00:09:45.639 --> 00:09:48.039 just struck such a good balance right from the get go in terms of being 154 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:52.519 fun and truthful to reality. And it's so it's in many way it's like, 155 00:09:52.559 --> 00:09:54.399 I don't there hasn't been a better snowboarding game for me than ten eighty 156 00:09:54.679 --> 00:09:58.679 than there has been a better wave race or you know, a watercraft game 157 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:01.720 than than Wave Race, because by sixty four, I haven't played a lot 158 00:10:01.720 --> 00:10:05.159 of the dirt bikes game since a few of them, but even in those 159 00:10:05.200 --> 00:10:07.480 cases, I haven't played one that's better than because I like sixty four. 160 00:10:07.559 --> 00:10:11.000 I don't think I've played another dirt bike game. There's there's. They always 161 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:15.759 have the craziest names these days. It's like motocross and then five other words 162 00:10:15.799 --> 00:10:18.960 and then like usually the word Mountain Dew in there, or maybe Monster Energy 163 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:22.600 Drink, and it's like, I love a video game that just has an 164 00:10:22.679 --> 00:10:26.759 energy drink and its name. I mean Mountain Dew was a team sponsor in 165 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:31.000 jet Modo games and Jet Moto Mountain Dew, right, that rule I love. 166 00:10:31.039 --> 00:10:33.279 That's actually one of my favorite things about Jet Modo are of those Mountain 167 00:10:33.279 --> 00:10:37.120 Dew ads. It's like Mountain US logo. It's like so good and low 168 00:10:37.159 --> 00:10:37.759 rest It's like, oh, I know what that is. Still, even 169 00:10:37.759 --> 00:10:41.759 though it's all smudgy, Honestly, it truly is like as far as low 170 00:10:41.799 --> 00:10:46.159 res logos go, mount Dew pretty elite. Yes, you could just spot 171 00:10:46.200 --> 00:10:48.879 it instantly, know what that is? The color scheme and like the shapes, 172 00:10:48.919 --> 00:10:52.440 You're like, that's Mountain Dew. Yeah, all right. Phil Spencer 173 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:56.600 says we can look forward to more frequent Xbox showcases. This is from Jonas 174 00:10:56.639 --> 00:11:00.960 Maki at Game Reactor. Microsoft kicked off twenty twenty three with a developer direct, 175 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:05.440 followed by several ideat Xbox shows. Then they had a huge Xbox showcase 176 00:11:05.480 --> 00:11:09.080 in June, which was followed by a dedicated Starfield showcase, and now they 177 00:11:09.080 --> 00:11:11.639 have the biggest, their biggest games com effort ever and it seems like this 178 00:11:11.679 --> 00:11:16.399 is something we should get used to. While speaking to IGN, the xbox 179 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:20.840 Box pil Spencers says that Microsoft has reevaluated their showcase strategy as they simply have 180 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:24.080 too many games. Now what I could say is we're going to have more 181 00:11:24.120 --> 00:11:28.399 beats to talk about more of what we do because the content lineup is so 182 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:31.120 strong, Spencer said. He then went on to continue to say, you're 183 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:35.840 going to see more regular times to talk about our games because the portfolio is 184 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:41.480 deep enough that we can support that. This does sound right, Emma, 185 00:11:41.559 --> 00:11:46.080 where it's like oh yeah. For a while there, the Xbox would basically 186 00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:50.200 just have their E three showcase and then they would do some other smaller stuff 187 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:54.000 in between that We're always felt stretched too thin, and they would take hours 188 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:58.720 and have long developer interviews because they were filling time and they were not like 189 00:11:58.799 --> 00:12:01.799 presentations of the sort that we did get at E three now that we get 190 00:12:01.840 --> 00:12:05.960 at Summer Gamefest. If you know, if they are hitting their stride where 191 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:09.240 they're like, hey, four big first party games per year and then a 192 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:11.360 lot of partner games and a lot of other stuff for game Pass, they 193 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:15.039 are going to need more showcases and I would expect them to get kind of 194 00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:18.799 get do that the Nintendo Direct state of play schedule of like two, three, 195 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:22.240 maybe even four things a year right literally exactly what I was thinking that 196 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:26.320 this sounds like a Nintendo Direct strategy and it does make sense for Xbox, 197 00:12:26.519 --> 00:12:30.559 whereas with Nintendo, again, a lot of it is being like, oh, 198 00:12:30.639 --> 00:12:33.000 this this game is coming to Nintendo Switch Online, this is what we're 199 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:37.919 adding the nixt four collection, this is we're adding the ness nes, etcetera. 200 00:12:37.559 --> 00:12:41.039 Now with Xbox, obviously, and I mean they've they've been on this 201 00:12:41.159 --> 00:12:46.759 road since I want to say it was leading up to twenty twenty. We 202 00:12:46.759 --> 00:12:50.279 were getting there. In twenty twenty is when I feel like they really hit 203 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:54.720 the strategy hard of get an affordable console, get the console in the home. 204 00:12:54.919 --> 00:12:58.120 People are going to subscribe to game Pass, and then they're going to 205 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:01.960 be Xbox people, And that is and that is right for Xbox because again, 206 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:05.879 it's like as far as like, you know, the first party triple 207 00:13:05.879 --> 00:13:11.080 A exclusive titles like PlayStation has always kind of led the charge in that department, 208 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:16.120 and so I think Xbox strategy is incredibly smart and this is the thing 209 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:20.799 is like a ride or die for PlayStation girl. I would still recommend to 210 00:13:20.840 --> 00:13:22.279 anybody that's like, well, I don't know what console should I get, 211 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:28.200 I would say Xbox simply because of again, the Xbox Game Pass offering. 212 00:13:28.200 --> 00:13:31.159 And now we are again, as you say, like getting into a position 213 00:13:31.240 --> 00:13:35.759 wherein Xbox is also pushing some big first party titles. They're constantly add of 214 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:39.679 stuff to game Pass. This just makes sense for them. Yep. Yeah, 215 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:43.159 and it's I think they the messaging is still a big part of what 216 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:46.320 they need to be focused on because these games are are coming, but we 217 00:13:46.360 --> 00:13:50.799 are. We're gonna get Starfield, and they're gonna hope that's gonna hit the 218 00:13:50.799 --> 00:13:54.200 way they needed to, in the way that Redfall didn't. But it's like 219 00:13:54.679 --> 00:13:58.240 they're gonna they're gonna want to carry the momentum forward in other ways than just 220 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:01.200 releasing games, because the game the next games will be like, you know, 221 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:03.639 three four months away, but you know, we got what we got 222 00:14:03.679 --> 00:14:05.360 forts Horizon coming later this year, that'll be one. But it's like forts 223 00:14:05.399 --> 00:14:09.080 Horizon is a good example because it's not for everybody. So it's like, 224 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:13.279 right that that that'll hit that audience, and it's a big audience for excuse 225 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:16.159 me, I'm saying Fort's Horizon for it's a motorsport. The ports of games 226 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:18.480 are like are they sell very well? They do have their audience, but 227 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:20.559 there's a lot of people who are like, I'm not going to play a 228 00:14:20.600 --> 00:14:24.440 game about a car, and it's just not for me. And so what 229 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:26.799 you do is like, Okay, some people are excited about the next game. 230 00:14:26.039 --> 00:14:28.279 The people that are looking past that, what are you going to do 231 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:31.360 for them? And the best thing you could do for them, other than 232 00:14:31.399 --> 00:14:33.679 put out the game sooner, which is a lot of cases is not going 233 00:14:33.720 --> 00:14:37.440 to be possible, is to give them showcases that get them excited and continue 234 00:14:37.480 --> 00:14:39.120 to make them feel good about the big purchase they made when they bought your 235 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:43.759 console. And so, yeah, they did a I think they had a 236 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:48.039 really good show at Summer Game Fest. And if they can kind of do 237 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:52.600 many versions of those throughout the year and then still have an equivalent big showcase 238 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:56.200 at Summer Game Fest again next year. Then I think they're in a good 239 00:14:56.240 --> 00:15:00.679 position, right, Yeah, definitely, And I mean again just kind of 240 00:15:01.039 --> 00:15:03.360 circling back to what you were saying about building up the hype around these big 241 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:07.519 titles that are going to have, you know, long periods of time in 242 00:15:07.559 --> 00:15:15.279 between their releases. They do have the added bonus of having the Xbox Game 243 00:15:15.320 --> 00:15:20.759 Pass offering as well, and the more that they can highlight what's on there 244 00:15:20.840 --> 00:15:24.320 or get people hyped about stuff that's coming on there. For example, you 245 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:28.440 know, one of their big things at the Xbox Showcase was showing off that 246 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:33.840 they're getting the you know, re Actually it looks like a little bit more 247 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:37.000 than a remaster the Persona three that's coming to the Xbox. It's definitely more 248 00:15:37.000 --> 00:15:43.679 of a remake. But also you know the fact that they're offering up all 249 00:15:43.720 --> 00:15:46.639 of the Persona titles. That was a huge get for them, especially because 250 00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:54.320 Xbox has kind of lagged behind in the import game world. They've kind of 251 00:15:54.360 --> 00:16:00.360 just shared stuff that has also been on PlayStation. And while certainly Atlas Sega 252 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:03.080 is never going to be like Xbox, you're our guy forever and ever and 253 00:16:03.080 --> 00:16:07.039 ever, We're never putting anything on the switch or the PlayStation. Ever again 254 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:11.480 having those things, the Xbox Game Pass offerings is huge, Yes, and 255 00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:15.600 what is it? It refound Tasio. What's the name of that game? 256 00:16:15.799 --> 00:16:22.919 Oh? Yeah, the one that's like really fantasy and it's not right but 257 00:16:22.960 --> 00:16:26.559 not persona. Yeah, and it's like that showing up again in an Xbox 258 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:30.279 showcase. That is like it speaks to that that specific weakness that you mentioned 259 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:32.639 of, like really, well, a lot of Japanese games don't come to 260 00:16:32.759 --> 00:16:37.200 Xbox, or many don't, and Xbox clearly trying to change that. Well, 261 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:40.559 how do you change that narrative? It is, well, of course 262 00:16:40.639 --> 00:16:44.159 releasing the games. Actually releasing that's the biggest thing. But the second biggest 263 00:16:44.159 --> 00:16:48.320 thing is the messaging because gamers are very tapped into this stuff. Even casual 264 00:16:48.360 --> 00:16:52.480 fans that are not watching these showcases do hear like the murmuring from their friends 265 00:16:52.519 --> 00:16:56.200 who are tapped in, and that stuff filters out. So it's like, 266 00:16:56.240 --> 00:16:59.320 you want to make sure that you're keeping a positive sentiment, which is something 267 00:16:59.320 --> 00:17:02.639 I think Mike Stuff has been very aware of and they've been relatively good at 268 00:17:02.679 --> 00:17:06.000 that. It's just that when it comes to releasing the game, sometimes things 269 00:17:06.039 --> 00:17:07.759 have gone have set them back, and that's where they kind of got into 270 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:11.680 a pretty tough situation earlier this year following Red Fall. But right, if 271 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:15.119 they can match up releasing good games with the with the strong messaging, then 272 00:17:15.160 --> 00:17:19.839 I think they'll be okay. No, And I think that xbox Is messaging 273 00:17:21.440 --> 00:17:26.039 and strategy has been very clear. It's been well executed. They have come 274 00:17:26.079 --> 00:17:29.720 away looking good through most of it. And again, you know, you 275 00:17:29.759 --> 00:17:33.599 mentioned the sort of Red Fall fiasco, like they addressed that pretty much, 276 00:17:33.680 --> 00:17:37.039 very specifically. Yeah, exactly. Again, they come in with the strong 277 00:17:37.079 --> 00:17:42.240 messaging and you know, you kind of look at the whole Xbox Activision Blizzard 278 00:17:42.240 --> 00:17:48.119 acquisition thing. The only people who kind of looked moronic during that was Activision 279 00:17:48.119 --> 00:17:51.799 Blizzard, not Xbox. Like Xbox, they got their pr on lock. 280 00:17:52.359 --> 00:17:55.519 And you could tell that was a strategy where you know, hey, Bobby, 281 00:17:55.880 --> 00:17:56.759 no one likes you in the house. Your bad cop, and we're 282 00:17:56.759 --> 00:18:00.000 gonna be good cop, and we're gonna go out there and we're gonna attack 283 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:03.640 this from both sides, but we're going to maintain our reputation throughout this or 284 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:06.839 do our best to do that. A lot of it, you could see 285 00:18:06.839 --> 00:18:08.720 through a lot of that stuff. Some of it's transparent, but for the 286 00:18:08.720 --> 00:18:11.519 most part, I mean, you know, that's just the way this works. 287 00:18:11.559 --> 00:18:15.160 And a few days later people forget and it goes back to like, 288 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:18.559 oh, yeah, man, game Pass is good and all this stuff, 289 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:19.359 I just wish through some good games. Well, it's like, hey, 290 00:18:19.559 --> 00:18:23.559 that that part might be starting, And now all that positive messaging machine that 291 00:18:23.559 --> 00:18:27.000 they've built up over all this time can be used to that end instead of 292 00:18:27.039 --> 00:18:30.799 just being like, here's a new feature or here's an update to the Xbox 293 00:18:30.039 --> 00:18:33.680 os or something like that. Yeah, all right, we're gonna come back 294 00:18:33.720 --> 00:18:37.319 after the after a moment and talk about the rest of the news, including 295 00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:41.559 what Certain Affinities working on, and maybe PlayStation making a Day's Gone movie. 296 00:18:41.680 --> 00:18:45.079 We'll get to all of that right after this. All right, we're back 297 00:18:45.200 --> 00:18:49.559 and we're talking about Certain Affinity has announced an original first person shooter code named 298 00:18:49.799 --> 00:18:55.240 Lauro. This is from Tom Ivan at VGC. Certain Affinity has announced that 299 00:18:55.279 --> 00:18:59.920 it's working on an original first person shooter codenamed Lauro. The studio CEO Max 300 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:03.079 Hobberman said the company has been pitching the title beyond Behind Closed Doors at Gamescom 301 00:19:03.160 --> 00:19:07.400 this week, Our playable demo put a lot of smiles on people's faces. 302 00:19:07.440 --> 00:19:10.720 He tweeted. We tell everyone, We tell everyone the project code Dame, 303 00:19:10.880 --> 00:19:14.000 and it's about to get out, So let me be the first say hello 304 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:18.119 to Lauro, a working title for our original first person shooter. Based in 305 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:22.200 Austin, Texas, Certain Affinity is a prolific support studio founded in two thousand 306 00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:26.440 and six by Hobberman, who was formerly a multiplayer and online lead at Bungee. 307 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:30.200 Has collaborated on over thirty products and across more than a dozen franchises, 308 00:19:30.200 --> 00:19:33.640 including installments in the Halo and Call of Duty series, as well as Left 309 00:19:33.680 --> 00:19:38.839 for Dead and Doom. Last September, Certain Affinity appointed vetery veteran industry executive 310 00:19:38.839 --> 00:19:44.400 Paul Sam's as the studio's president and chief operating officer. Sam is now kind 311 00:19:44.400 --> 00:19:48.000 of overseeing the strategy to turn Certain Affinity into a studio that puts out some 312 00:19:48.079 --> 00:19:52.839 of its own games in addition to continuing to do this work work for higher 313 00:19:52.920 --> 00:19:56.519 business that's been very good at Project lau new to me, it's news to 314 00:19:56.559 --> 00:20:00.759 me. This is a first verson shooter, original first person to shooter. 315 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:07.440 This is apparently in addition to the first person Shooter obviously content that they are 316 00:20:07.440 --> 00:20:11.680 making for Halo Infinite, or that it might be a cousin to Halo Infinite 317 00:20:11.720 --> 00:20:15.440 that is supposedly some sort of Battle Royale game that's Project Toutanka. And then 318 00:20:15.480 --> 00:20:18.359 there is also the Monster Hunter Like, which I assume wouldn't be first person 319 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:22.279 first person, especially since this game they said they're pitching this at Gamescom, 320 00:20:22.880 --> 00:20:26.359 and the Monster Hunter like that they're making they are working with Xbox on that, 321 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:30.680 so I assume they would not still be pitching that anywhere. So certain 322 00:20:30.680 --> 00:20:33.839 Affinity a very busy studio, But I think I think it's a good thing 323 00:20:33.880 --> 00:20:37.839 when a studio that has been doing the work of helping others companies and has 324 00:20:37.960 --> 00:20:42.759 a very good reputation for that is able to build up the momentum enough to 325 00:20:42.759 --> 00:20:45.319 put out their own stuff. And I'm pretty excited about that, how about 326 00:20:45.359 --> 00:20:52.119 you? Yeah, absolutely, because I mean this is the way that you 327 00:20:52.319 --> 00:20:57.240 get the experience and you kind of get to come at it from Okay, 328 00:20:57.279 --> 00:21:00.640 well, we're not in charge of the project from top to bottom. Were 329 00:21:00.720 --> 00:21:07.480 essentially contractors that are working on this very specific DLC or you know, whatever 330 00:21:07.480 --> 00:21:11.079 sort of support you're going to do. So it makes sense to me that 331 00:21:11.079 --> 00:21:15.880 that a studio you know, like certain affinity would move into the They've certainly 332 00:21:17.200 --> 00:21:21.279 proven that they know what they're doing when it comes to the first person shooters, 333 00:21:21.680 --> 00:21:23.680 and it makes sense that they would go this route, right, And 334 00:21:23.960 --> 00:21:29.720 like being a support studio, you got to be there like this, have 335 00:21:29.799 --> 00:21:34.079 this certain selection of talents of knowing how to address problems or fix issues or 336 00:21:34.680 --> 00:21:40.599 how also how to not cause problems and cause issues, and that that skill 337 00:21:40.640 --> 00:21:44.599 set is something that's well, you know, eventually that's enough where hey, 338 00:21:44.640 --> 00:21:48.079 we could see from beginning to end what a project needs, and now we 339 00:21:48.160 --> 00:21:51.880 have the confidence and obviously the history of making enough stuff. Then they've made 340 00:21:51.880 --> 00:21:55.400 a ton of stuff that they can now tackle these projects on their own. 341 00:21:56.079 --> 00:21:59.440 Also, they you know, being based in Texas, Austin, a ton 342 00:21:59.640 --> 00:22:03.039 of talented developers in that in that space, it's where retro's at, It's 343 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:06.440 where some of the you know, the former bio where people were there. 344 00:22:07.039 --> 00:22:08.839 But there's there's a lot of studios there, so there's a lot of talent. 345 00:22:10.119 --> 00:22:11.079 So I it's just like, man, we can keep growing, we 346 00:22:11.119 --> 00:22:15.440 can keep attracting talent, and then we can keep doing our work. But 347 00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:18.240 then also take on these other projects and work with companies like Microsoft, or 348 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:22.480 work with other publishers, or eventually even start publishing our own stuff, which 349 00:22:22.480 --> 00:22:25.279 a lot of studios in these situations end up doing after a few years. 350 00:22:25.640 --> 00:22:29.319 So it's like, this is the business again, kind of working the way 351 00:22:29.319 --> 00:22:34.359 it should and being pretty dynamic and enabling talented studios to start as one thing 352 00:22:34.440 --> 00:22:40.359 and grow into something more. And you know, that's not necessarily always happening 353 00:22:40.359 --> 00:22:41.559 in a lot of other spaces. You know, we always like, you 354 00:22:41.599 --> 00:22:45.880 know, the dynamism dynamism of gaming is not replicated in music and movies and 355 00:22:45.960 --> 00:22:48.559 things like that. So it's like, it's good to see that this is 356 00:22:48.559 --> 00:22:52.119 still working for some studios. That's what I was going to say, that 357 00:22:52.240 --> 00:22:56.319 it feels like this is the way it should work, right, because I 358 00:22:56.359 --> 00:23:00.519 think that one of the things that we're sort of missing in the workforce across 359 00:23:00.559 --> 00:23:07.359 the board is the sort of more junior level roles. It's kind of like 360 00:23:07.559 --> 00:23:11.680 entry level and then senior level, and the junior level kind of gets lost 361 00:23:11.720 --> 00:23:15.519 in the mix sometimes. And this is the perfect example of here is how 362 00:23:15.599 --> 00:23:18.559 this is supposed to work. You have, you know, your big studios 363 00:23:18.559 --> 00:23:21.599 that are the ones that are actually you know, doing a project from start 364 00:23:21.640 --> 00:23:25.279 to finish, and then you have these support studios. The support studios are 365 00:23:25.359 --> 00:23:30.880 so important because by being a support studio, you learn the ins and outs 366 00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:33.359 and like you said, Jeff, like how to fix and also anticipate potential 367 00:23:33.400 --> 00:23:40.079 problems. So yes, yeah, this is good. Yes, And I 368 00:23:40.079 --> 00:23:41.319 mean, you know, he started this studio in two thousand and six, 369 00:23:41.400 --> 00:23:45.039 but even you know, being at Bungee leaving starting your own thing and then 370 00:23:45.119 --> 00:23:49.359 over the course of almost twenty years, building that up into something that's bigger 371 00:23:49.400 --> 00:23:52.759 than ever. And it's that also is how it should work. Is people 372 00:23:52.880 --> 00:23:56.759 can work at a studio that has had a lot of success. They can 373 00:23:56.799 --> 00:24:00.599 take their money, they can take their stock options, and they could take 374 00:24:00.640 --> 00:24:04.000 their experience and turn that into huge investments from from outside, you know, 375 00:24:04.319 --> 00:24:07.839 from venture capital, and now now you're building your own thing. And that's 376 00:24:07.880 --> 00:24:11.559 also that's the whole process working. That's what's going to happen with Activision Blizzard. 377 00:24:11.799 --> 00:24:15.880 You know, Microsoft's going to acquire Activision Blizzard and a lot of people 378 00:24:15.920 --> 00:24:18.400 who are at call of duty are making Call of duty games right now, 379 00:24:18.519 --> 00:24:21.039 who have stock options, They're gonna wait for that stuff to vest. They're 380 00:24:21.039 --> 00:24:23.559 gonna make a couple more Call of Duty games at at under Microsoft, and 381 00:24:25.119 --> 00:24:27.400 most of them are going to leave to start their own things. Yeah, 382 00:24:27.519 --> 00:24:30.279 that's what happened with Respond. And it's like, you know, Respond still 383 00:24:30.319 --> 00:24:34.000 so very strong studio. It's attracting a lot of very good talent, but 384 00:24:34.079 --> 00:24:37.559 it's at the same time, a lot of the people that were there when 385 00:24:37.799 --> 00:24:41.759 the EA purchase happened, they've vested their their their their stock options, and 386 00:24:41.799 --> 00:24:44.680 now they've moved on and started a whole bunch of other studios that we haven't 387 00:24:44.720 --> 00:24:45.799 heard from yet, but we're going to over the next couple of years. 388 00:24:47.440 --> 00:24:52.559 Yep. All right. Up next, New PlayStation Productions Montage hints at a 389 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:56.720 Day's Gone film. This comes from Hannah Townsend at Twinfinite. Fans of Ben's 390 00:24:56.720 --> 00:25:00.039 Studios twenty nineteen game Days Gone have been wishing for a sequel for a few 391 00:25:00.160 --> 00:25:03.039 years now, and while a sequel seems not to be on the horizon, 392 00:25:03.319 --> 00:25:07.039 it's possible that a film could be. Uh. Let's take a look at 393 00:25:07.079 --> 00:25:11.119 what hence seemed to have been dropped. Day's Gone appears in New PlayStation Productions 394 00:25:11.160 --> 00:25:17.240 Montage look in the product PlayStation Productions is the company that deals with turning Sony's 395 00:25:17.319 --> 00:25:21.759 video game ips into full fledged movies and shows. A new video was recently 396 00:25:21.799 --> 00:25:26.599 added which features many beloved PlayStation characters, including the Freaker fighting hero from from 397 00:25:26.680 --> 00:25:30.960 Farewell, Deacon Saint John. That didn't think it's Saint John. I think 398 00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:33.559 is the character from Day's Gone. I've never played it. Yeah. The 399 00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:37.720 source comes from an ex Twitter post by the user real rat Radick, who 400 00:25:37.759 --> 00:25:41.119 noticed the Saint John how hiding out a little bit further in the back of 401 00:25:41.160 --> 00:25:45.640 the video. There were rumors back in two twenty twenty two of a Day's 402 00:25:45.640 --> 00:25:49.000 Gone film being in the works, but these were seemingly unsubstantiated and unconfirmed. 403 00:25:49.279 --> 00:25:53.240 But this new revelation could be adding credit credence, credits credence to the rumor. 404 00:25:55.720 --> 00:25:57.680 So this this is a montage that has a lot of elements from getting 405 00:25:57.680 --> 00:26:03.359 from games that we know are getting worked on at PlayStation Productions. Would it 406 00:26:03.400 --> 00:26:07.920 be surprising to you if a character like seak in Saint John from Day's Gone 407 00:26:07.920 --> 00:26:11.440 would show up in that if they weren't working on A Day's Gone movie, 408 00:26:11.799 --> 00:26:15.559 It would be unusual, I would say. And also, you know just 409 00:26:15.640 --> 00:26:23.720 kind of looking very specifically at PlayStation's track record. Obviously, the Last of 410 00:26:23.799 --> 00:26:30.240 Us was a huge, huge success for them earlier this year, so it 411 00:26:30.359 --> 00:26:36.880 stands to reason that they would be looking for other titles to give the on 412 00:26:37.119 --> 00:26:41.680 screen treatment too. Yes, and they've been open about that that that's like, 413 00:26:41.720 --> 00:26:45.359 that's a huge part of their strategy is Hey, we're Sony and look 414 00:26:45.359 --> 00:26:47.880 at all these other divisions, and we see this happening with like their hardware 415 00:26:47.880 --> 00:26:52.200 stuff, the PlayStation VR two, PlayStation portal, the new headphones and all 416 00:26:52.200 --> 00:26:56.519 these things. These are initiatives started by other parts of Sony for the most 417 00:26:56.559 --> 00:26:59.759 part, and then they're but they're coming out there the PlayStation brand and Sony 418 00:26:59.759 --> 00:27:03.400 pit looking at this fertile PlayStation of ground of like there's a lot of ip 419 00:27:03.519 --> 00:27:07.319 here that we can that we could take a turn into films is doing the 420 00:27:07.359 --> 00:27:11.599 same exact thing, maximizing the return on value on the value of PlayStation, 421 00:27:11.640 --> 00:27:15.079 which is the most valuable thing at Sony maybe except for their insurance business, 422 00:27:15.119 --> 00:27:19.880 which I never understand. Yeah, but the Day's Gone is weird one because 423 00:27:21.039 --> 00:27:23.279 for a lot of these other projects, we have at least heard rumors of 424 00:27:23.359 --> 00:27:27.519 a game coming for the biggest example there. The biggest example is Last of 425 00:27:27.559 --> 00:27:30.519 Us getting the Last of Us Part one remake and Last of Us Part two 426 00:27:30.920 --> 00:27:36.119 getting like a remastered version rumored, so like maybe coincide with the next season 427 00:27:36.160 --> 00:27:37.799 of the show and all that makes a ton of sense because we saw how 428 00:27:37.839 --> 00:27:41.960 The Witcher sold a bunch of games, win It with the Netflix and then 429 00:27:41.039 --> 00:27:45.480 Twisted Metal. There's at least that rumor of the studios working on Twisted Metal 430 00:27:45.519 --> 00:27:48.079 games, so you know one was working on and then it moved to another 431 00:27:48.079 --> 00:27:52.519 studio, and we have that show now and the show did pretty well, 432 00:27:52.559 --> 00:27:53.759 maybe we get a second season and maybe they have a game ready to go 433 00:27:53.799 --> 00:27:57.880 with that as well. The thing we've heard about Days Gone is they definitely 434 00:27:57.960 --> 00:28:02.799 aren't making a sequel. There's been all the rumors that we have heard about 435 00:28:02.799 --> 00:28:07.359 a sequel are have been squashed and people are like, there's just no way 436 00:28:07.359 --> 00:28:08.920 that that's happening. That's laughable. Even like people in the studio are like, 437 00:28:08.960 --> 00:28:11.599 we're laughing at this when someone mentions like, hey, they're making a 438 00:28:11.680 --> 00:28:17.759 Day's Gone sequel. So that's where I'm like, I'm confused, Like, 439 00:28:17.799 --> 00:28:19.720 do you think there's a possibility we get a Days Gone movie or Days Gone 440 00:28:19.720 --> 00:28:25.720 TV show without getting a new game. I do think so, and I 441 00:28:25.759 --> 00:28:34.160 think that the strategy here maybe to release a Day's Gone TV show or movie, 442 00:28:34.359 --> 00:28:41.799 see if that garner's interest with a new audience, and then be like, 443 00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:45.519 oh, well, now it's done well. Because the thing that's interesting 444 00:28:45.559 --> 00:28:51.200 about Days Gone is like it was a commercial success. It made money, 445 00:28:51.359 --> 00:28:52.839 but the reviews were just a little bit low. Yeah, they're kind of 446 00:28:52.880 --> 00:28:56.960 met, Yeah, exactly, Yeah, the reviews were mixed. Yes, 447 00:28:57.440 --> 00:29:03.920 So I wonder if the strategy I don't know. I mean, if anything, 448 00:29:03.960 --> 00:29:06.640 I would say, if we're getting a day Is Gone like movie, 449 00:29:06.680 --> 00:29:10.960 TV show, whatever, maybe it's the game is not that old. Thous 450 00:29:11.039 --> 00:29:15.200 I was like, oh, a remastered version of the Dames. That's true. 451 00:29:15.640 --> 00:29:22.000 No, you're absolutely right, So maybe a rerelease, a remaster included 452 00:29:22.039 --> 00:29:26.440 with your PlayStation plus extra subscription. I don't know. I think I think 453 00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:30.440 I agree with you about what you said about like this might be then testing 454 00:29:30.440 --> 00:29:33.200 the waters, because I mean what I put out a day Is Gone show 455 00:29:33.519 --> 00:29:37.359 and it does very well, and then then the demand for a Day's Gone 456 00:29:37.440 --> 00:29:40.680 sequel it just becomes evident. It's like Okay, well, we will start 457 00:29:40.680 --> 00:29:42.160 working on that in earnest, and we'll keep the show going and hopefully we 458 00:29:42.200 --> 00:29:47.440 can get a new game out before you know, for interest wanes, but 459 00:29:47.480 --> 00:29:48.720 I bet they'll be like, we're at least we at least think that's worth 460 00:29:48.759 --> 00:29:52.599 an attempt. And I could I could ibagine you're saying that now, making 461 00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:56.799 games very big, very expensive, very time consume. Trying to line up 462 00:29:56.920 --> 00:30:03.079 these you know, television or movie production right with the game stuff is challenging. 463 00:30:03.279 --> 00:30:04.920 But I still think Sony's in a position where they're like, we want 464 00:30:04.960 --> 00:30:07.759 to see, like how far we can push the limits of this idea, 465 00:30:07.799 --> 00:30:11.599 of these strategies, and they's gone is a relatively good test bed for that. 466 00:30:12.559 --> 00:30:15.480 Yeah, I think so too. And I mean, you know, 467 00:30:15.559 --> 00:30:19.599 you brought up the example of The Witcher and how the Netflix series sold a 468 00:30:19.599 --> 00:30:23.799 bunch of copies of the game, and I would also hazard to guess, 469 00:30:23.880 --> 00:30:27.680 a bunch of copies of the books. So yeah, again, it's like 470 00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:33.240 I think that they're in a good position to again, you have this this 471 00:30:33.440 --> 00:30:38.359 game that's still relatively contemporary twenty nineteen, and then what you have is a 472 00:30:38.400 --> 00:30:42.680 TV show, movie, whatever it is. See how that affects sales of 473 00:30:42.680 --> 00:30:47.799 an existing game and then go, okay, cool, this is impetus for 474 00:30:47.920 --> 00:30:51.440 us to definitely make a seq little this. Yes, absolutely, I think 475 00:30:51.480 --> 00:30:55.680 that's that seems to be kind of what could be happening here. There was 476 00:30:55.720 --> 00:31:02.279 also in this this video apparently some characters from Medievil. Oh yeah, I 477 00:31:02.799 --> 00:31:07.279 sort of remember Medievil. Yeah, they did a rereleased remaster remake of that 478 00:31:07.400 --> 00:31:11.559 a few years ago, and it's so yeah, okay, that's uh. 479 00:31:11.599 --> 00:31:15.480 That's another one that's like, oh, you could see how that also makes 480 00:31:15.519 --> 00:31:19.200 sense because you can maybe aim at as a slightly younger audience, make it 481 00:31:19.240 --> 00:31:23.599 kind of the fun spooky thing and children's contents or even like, you know, 482 00:31:23.720 --> 00:31:30.240 the between content is very very valuable to these streaming services. Uh you 483 00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:32.720 know, maybe Amazon's backed off it a little bit, but a lot of 484 00:31:32.759 --> 00:31:34.720 these other services are still like, we need as much kids content as possible. 485 00:31:34.720 --> 00:31:37.799 A lot of people make their decisions about what what subscriptions to keep based 486 00:31:37.799 --> 00:31:41.359 on what their kids are watching. So I could see that working. Maybe 487 00:31:41.400 --> 00:31:45.319 that Madiev will come out as like some other sort of thing and won't be 488 00:31:45.359 --> 00:31:47.680 for kids, but I get to see that, like, oh that makes 489 00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:49.319 sense because they don't have a lot of other things that they're pushing forward as 490 00:31:49.759 --> 00:31:56.319 content for younger audiences at least family friendly. Yes, right, family friendly, 491 00:31:56.359 --> 00:32:00.000 you know. Yeah, all right, Well we'll see. Sony Pictures 492 00:32:00.039 --> 00:32:04.799 are gonna keep making the stuff PlayStation entertainment. Uh. They still they have 493 00:32:04.880 --> 00:32:08.200 that you know, Marvel Cinematic Universe opening scrawl that they have. We'll see 494 00:32:08.200 --> 00:32:13.240 what what characters show up in there in the future. Uh. Sony is 495 00:32:13.279 --> 00:32:17.079 to acquire Audissey. It's a U D. E Z and so you know 496 00:32:21.400 --> 00:32:25.079 these nuts. So I can't help myself, but but I think it's Audi 497 00:32:25.200 --> 00:32:30.920 Z. This is from Jeffrey Rizzo at Games Industry dot biz. Sony Interactive 498 00:32:30.039 --> 00:32:35.799 Entertainment has entered a deal to purchase audio technology company Audissey. Terms of the 499 00:32:35.799 --> 00:32:38.680 transaction, which including the cost, we're not disclosed. With the acquisition, 500 00:32:38.799 --> 00:32:44.839 Sie aims to expand the audio technology of PlayStation games. Audissey will continue to 501 00:32:44.839 --> 00:32:47.680 operate as a separate entity into help It's Audio Products. Founded in two thousand 502 00:32:47.720 --> 00:32:51.960 and eight, the firm creates headphones for music professionals, gaming consumers, and 503 00:32:52.039 --> 00:32:55.200 music listeners. Audissey is a premier brand for headphones, and this acquisition highlights. 504 00:32:55.240 --> 00:33:00.839 Sony interactives focus on innovation, innovation, and providing the best audio experience 505 00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:05.839 to PlayStation players. And that's from Sie Senior Vice president of Platform Experience Hideaki 506 00:33:05.960 --> 00:33:13.759 Nishino. Headphones have huge profit margins and that's it. I know they can 507 00:33:14.119 --> 00:33:16.119 if they can get it their their core audience that spends a lot of money 508 00:33:16.200 --> 00:33:22.400 on PlayStation stuff. Excited about new headphone technochnology that is just money in the 509 00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:25.559 bank that has just a lot of dollars you can rub together because they can 510 00:33:27.039 --> 00:33:29.920 make them for very little money and they could charge a lot of money. 511 00:33:29.960 --> 00:33:32.240 Oh yeah, this is no. I don't blame them either. I mean, 512 00:33:32.400 --> 00:33:37.519 like it's it's so funny because both of my parents they're retired now, 513 00:33:37.519 --> 00:33:42.160 but they were computer programmers and so we were all ways upgrading our technology. 514 00:33:42.200 --> 00:33:45.319 And this just has like my dad will buy whatever. These headphones are both 515 00:33:45.400 --> 00:33:52.359 like written all over it. And I mean, look, I've had lovely 516 00:33:52.039 --> 00:33:59.799 audio experiences playing games on my PS five just with my you know, hyper 517 00:34:00.359 --> 00:34:06.960 cloud headphones and uh yeah, so, I mean you've got stuff that's targeted 518 00:34:06.960 --> 00:34:12.000 at the PlayStation. They do such a good job. But now games with 519 00:34:12.079 --> 00:34:15.679 like localized sound, so that you almost have to play them with their headphones 520 00:34:15.719 --> 00:34:20.599 on because it's really fun to like run away from somebody while they're talking and 521 00:34:20.639 --> 00:34:23.519 like those Yeah, the positional audio is so good, and so you know, 522 00:34:23.559 --> 00:34:27.360 any any way to enhance that. As you say, it's cheap to 523 00:34:27.360 --> 00:34:30.639 make headphones, you can sell them for a lot of money profits. Yeah, 524 00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:34.840 and Sony's moving to their new protocol that's kind of similar to what Xbox 525 00:34:34.920 --> 00:34:37.400 is doing, where you know, these companies always had ways for you to 526 00:34:37.400 --> 00:34:42.559 connect wireless headphones to your thing, yep. But in the past, like 527 00:34:42.599 --> 00:34:45.280 you know, Microsoft has had no dongles for that, you just gotta do 528 00:34:45.320 --> 00:34:47.639 the Xbox protocol, which is built into the thing and PlayStations like yeah, 529 00:34:47.639 --> 00:34:51.280 we'll probably just probably just have people used angles. But it seems like they're 530 00:34:51.280 --> 00:34:54.000 moving away from that with the new headphones that they have. It sounds like, 531 00:34:54.079 --> 00:34:58.119 oh, that stuff it will just be built in going forward, at 532 00:34:58.159 --> 00:35:00.159 least since my understanding that could that could change. Maybe those things have dongles 533 00:35:00.199 --> 00:35:05.039 as well, or maybe they do specifically for the PS five, But it's 534 00:35:05.119 --> 00:35:07.639 like, Okay, this is them starting a new sort of Hey, this 535 00:35:07.679 --> 00:35:12.800 is how we're handling gaming audio going forward. So if we're gonna have this, 536 00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:15.440 this whole new initiative, we might as well really go hard on it 537 00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:17.039 and try to sell a bunch of headphone new headphones to people, even people 538 00:35:17.039 --> 00:35:22.280 who might have bought headphones previously. So yeah, yeah, because I mean, 539 00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:25.440 if if you have a new offering, you're gonna have your people who 540 00:35:25.559 --> 00:35:30.119 are tech heads. It's the it's the same people that get a new iPhone 541 00:35:30.119 --> 00:35:34.079 every year, you know, like they will buy these yep. And and 542 00:35:34.159 --> 00:35:37.079 Sony's done a good job of making audio feel important on the PS five what 543 00:35:38.280 --> 00:35:40.960 absolutely happen? What is the technology? Call it? I can't They had 544 00:35:42.000 --> 00:35:43.760 a word for it, and now I can't remember it. Maybe oh I 545 00:35:43.800 --> 00:35:45.599 don't remember either, remember, but it's like, I know people people have 546 00:35:45.639 --> 00:35:49.119 mentioned that a bunch of times. How about how important that is to them? 547 00:35:49.199 --> 00:35:51.280 And it's like, yeah, I mean I get it, Like audio 548 00:35:51.400 --> 00:35:53.679 is the big thing that they could still make pretty big advancements. And we 549 00:35:53.880 --> 00:35:58.760 were sort of reached the plateau with with visuals where it's say this every episode 550 00:35:58.760 --> 00:36:00.840 now, but it's limited by hard words, limited by time and money. 551 00:36:01.000 --> 00:36:04.159 You know. The Last of Us Part two looks better on PS four than 552 00:36:04.159 --> 00:36:07.679 almost any game on the current gin consoles. But audio, it's like we've 553 00:36:07.679 --> 00:36:12.000 mostly been using our TV speakers. It's like, if we could get some 554 00:36:12.039 --> 00:36:15.280 other stuff in there and then really focus on that technol like path traced audio 555 00:36:15.400 --> 00:36:16.960 was a big thing. It's like, man, if we can get that 556 00:36:17.000 --> 00:36:21.320 going, we're sort of emulating that with the positional audio. Absolutely, and 557 00:36:21.480 --> 00:36:24.000 and that is and that is exactly like what I feel like my experience has 558 00:36:24.039 --> 00:36:28.880 been with the PlayStation, particularly with the PlayStation five, is feeling like, 559 00:36:29.000 --> 00:36:34.039 okay, cool, I actually really want to play this with headphones on or 560 00:36:34.119 --> 00:36:37.800 in like my nice surround sound speaker set up in the litter room, Like 561 00:36:37.840 --> 00:36:40.880 I like my little speaker bar that I have at my desk. Just ain't 562 00:36:40.880 --> 00:36:46.199 gonna cut it anymore. And it's a tempest tempest audio. Thank tempag phototrope 563 00:36:46.199 --> 00:36:51.639 for that. I appreciate it all right, let's h yes. In video. 564 00:36:51.679 --> 00:36:54.119 G Force now gets its first nineteen Xbox Game Pass titles. This comes 565 00:36:54.119 --> 00:36:59.119 from Chris Gooing at BGC. The first batch of Xbox Game Pass titles arrives 566 00:36:59.159 --> 00:37:02.599 on in videog Now today. The streaming service will now add an Xbox button 567 00:37:02.599 --> 00:37:07.199 to supported PC games, and g Forced now Subscribers will be able to launch 568 00:37:07.280 --> 00:37:09.880 them from any supported device as long as they've either bought them on the Microsoft 569 00:37:09.960 --> 00:37:15.199 Store or subscribed to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate or PC Game Pass. This will 570 00:37:15.320 --> 00:37:19.440 enable gamers to stream Xbox PC titles from g Force Now to PC's, mac 571 00:37:19.480 --> 00:37:22.719 os, chromebooks, smartphones, and other devices. A total of nineteen Xbox 572 00:37:22.760 --> 00:37:27.480 games are being added to the service. The games include things like Crusaders King, 573 00:37:27.559 --> 00:37:31.000 Crusader Kings, Three Dead Cells, Death Loop, Gears Five, Quake, 574 00:37:31.159 --> 00:37:35.880 Pentiment, Valheim, a whole bunch of stuff. This is, of 575 00:37:35.880 --> 00:37:39.679 course, I'm a part of their strategy of dealing with regulators where it's like, 576 00:37:39.719 --> 00:37:43.280 hey, all every time a regular say, hey, you're buying Activision 577 00:37:43.280 --> 00:37:45.639 Blozzier, this seems bad, and Microsoft be like, hey, how's it 578 00:37:45.639 --> 00:37:49.079 bad when we're trying to put more games in more places. Look how we're 579 00:37:49.079 --> 00:37:52.440 going to make a deal with Nvidia and now, hey, their games are 580 00:37:52.480 --> 00:37:55.800 in more places for more people. And to me, this continues to look 581 00:37:55.840 --> 00:38:00.039 like the regulators got what they wanted and gamers have more options and another good 582 00:38:00.039 --> 00:38:02.519 thing for the most part. Right, No, it definitely is a good 583 00:38:02.519 --> 00:38:07.800 thing. So interesting. I was just talking about Nvidia g Force Now with 584 00:38:08.159 --> 00:38:12.920 our colleague Tom Caswell over a game spot, and he was because I was 585 00:38:12.960 --> 00:38:15.920 basically saying to him that I had been holding out to play Balder's Gate three 586 00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:20.519 until it came to the PlayStation five, partially because I'm a consulicate I always 587 00:38:20.559 --> 00:38:24.840 have been, but also because I have friends who have better gaming PCs than 588 00:38:24.880 --> 00:38:30.199 I do, who it was like completely blowing up their PC because it's such 589 00:38:30.239 --> 00:38:32.960 a gigantic game. So it's like, you know what PlayStation, My PlayStation 590 00:38:32.960 --> 00:38:36.840 five is dedicated to only games. I don't need it to do anything but 591 00:38:37.039 --> 00:38:39.039 games. I'll just wait for that, and they're gonna they're gonna optimize that 592 00:38:39.079 --> 00:38:43.320 thing for the PS five, just like they optimize it really well for the 593 00:38:43.320 --> 00:38:45.199 Steam Deck. It's like when they, yes, when they aim it at 594 00:38:45.199 --> 00:38:46.599 a platform, they know what to do, but it's like people know exactly 595 00:38:46.599 --> 00:38:51.239 what to do and bridges for a lot of PCs, though yes, it 596 00:38:51.280 --> 00:38:53.760 was too big for the bridges for a lot of PC's. However, Tom 597 00:38:53.880 --> 00:39:00.719 was saying that he had been playing it via g force Now and he's it 598 00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:04.679 was incredible. G Force Now was very good. It's very good tech and 599 00:39:04.719 --> 00:39:07.000 it has been Yeah, throughout the entire pandemic when people were struggling to get 600 00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:10.679 PC's it was like, don't don't buy anything right now. Just if you 601 00:39:10.760 --> 00:39:14.159 really want to be if you're like Ore on an older computer and you want 602 00:39:14.159 --> 00:39:16.679 to feel like you're playing games at modern settings, please just use g Force 603 00:39:16.719 --> 00:39:20.960 now for the next year or so instead of buying a GPU at eighteen hundred 604 00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:24.239 dollars for one that came out four years ago. And it's and you know, 605 00:39:24.320 --> 00:39:28.519 but even even like now that we're well well passed that and prices have 606 00:39:28.559 --> 00:39:32.840 come down on PC components inted in Vidia, g Force now is still very 607 00:39:32.880 --> 00:39:37.519 good, a very fair option in a lot of cases, and now that's 608 00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:39.920 getting more games, it's like even more of a pretty decent option now. 609 00:39:40.159 --> 00:39:42.880 I think, yeah, there used to be a free tier, but I 610 00:39:42.880 --> 00:39:44.800 think that's when it was in beta. I think now you have to pay 611 00:39:44.840 --> 00:39:47.239 something after a certain point. I honestly don't know how the business model works, 612 00:39:47.800 --> 00:39:52.920 but still it's I don't think it's some prohibitive price in terms of how 613 00:39:52.039 --> 00:39:57.119 much it costs, but this as an option, yeah, and also talking 614 00:39:57.119 --> 00:40:00.920 about adding those Xbox Game Pass titles now based you don't even need an Xbox 615 00:40:01.320 --> 00:40:06.079 or a PC that can run these games. You just need a computer and 616 00:40:06.239 --> 00:40:10.039 you can subscribe to Nvidia, subscribe to game Pass, and you have access 617 00:40:10.039 --> 00:40:13.880 to all of these games. So again, it's like you said that the 618 00:40:14.000 --> 00:40:20.760 accessibility as far as games go, is getting just a lot better, and 619 00:40:21.239 --> 00:40:27.639 PC in particular, I think was the area wherein that kind of struggled previously 620 00:40:27.800 --> 00:40:31.480 because you know, there's a lot of components to a PC, whereas with 621 00:40:31.519 --> 00:40:34.519 a console, you just get the console, you hook it up to your 622 00:40:34.559 --> 00:40:37.039 TV, you're good to go. But now PC is getting in the game 623 00:40:37.280 --> 00:40:43.559 of making PC games accessible to people via these cloud services, and when they 624 00:40:43.599 --> 00:40:47.400 work like g Force now does, it's pretty awesome. Yep. Absolutely, 625 00:40:49.159 --> 00:40:53.239 to clear up my approximate knowledge of the situation, the free tier, it 626 00:40:53.320 --> 00:40:57.159 does exist, but like I said, at a certain point you have one 627 00:40:57.199 --> 00:41:00.199 hour long sessions and then if you session where I think you can log back 628 00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:04.280 in, but you might have to wait or something. So the other option 629 00:41:04.400 --> 00:41:07.800 is to pay ten dollars a month or what I think is, or you 630 00:41:07.840 --> 00:41:10.760 can pay like twenty dollars a month and get a forty eighty equivalent rig. 631 00:41:10.920 --> 00:41:15.440 Otherwise I think you're working with like RTX thirty eighty or something like that. 632 00:41:15.480 --> 00:41:17.400 But and then you can extreme at ten eighty. Yeah you want to watch 633 00:41:17.400 --> 00:41:20.840 what you want to play a game cudo, sure thing ten eighty or four 634 00:41:20.920 --> 00:41:22.559 K, depending on how much you play. And it's like, yeah, 635 00:41:22.559 --> 00:41:24.679 okay, yeah, all that makes sense. But again, this is not 636 00:41:24.760 --> 00:41:29.079 exactly like game Pass. You're gonna have to bring the games, game purchases 637 00:41:29.519 --> 00:41:32.320 or the subscription service from game Pass yourself. So I think having that free 638 00:41:32.320 --> 00:41:38.000 option is is pretty good. Yeah, okay, moving along here, Xbox 639 00:41:38.039 --> 00:41:42.400 Series X is at the end of the beginning of its life cycle. Phil 640 00:41:42.440 --> 00:41:45.360 Spencer says. This comes from Darren Bontheus at game Spot and a new interview 641 00:41:45.480 --> 00:41:50.039 xbox Head, Phil Spencer explained how the Xbox Series X and S S consoles 642 00:41:50.039 --> 00:41:52.559 are only just getting started and with the third anniversary of these systems coming up, 643 00:41:52.599 --> 00:41:57.280 how he sees the Xbox console cycle being at the end of the beginning 644 00:41:57.320 --> 00:42:00.519 of its life cycle now that certain supply chain issue have been resolved, I 645 00:42:00.519 --> 00:42:02.760 think we're kind of at the end of the beginning. I think the supply 646 00:42:02.840 --> 00:42:07.119 issues early on length in the beginning to some extent, both on costs as 647 00:42:07.159 --> 00:42:09.599 well as availability, Spencer said to IGN, I think from a game depth 648 00:42:09.639 --> 00:42:13.920 standpoint, not just us, but third parties, you're really just now starting 649 00:42:13.960 --> 00:42:17.000 to see the swell of games that got slowed up during COVID production now starting 650 00:42:17.039 --> 00:42:21.280 to launch. There are so many games coming out right now that we're starting 651 00:42:21.280 --> 00:42:23.440 to get through the beginning of this generation and hopefully into a place where as 652 00:42:23.480 --> 00:42:27.400 the owners of a console, we've got games that are taking full advantage of 653 00:42:27.400 --> 00:42:31.559 the hardware and are great games for people to go and play. He goes 654 00:42:31.559 --> 00:42:37.039 on here a little bit, But to me, this is like talking around 655 00:42:37.079 --> 00:42:39.559 this idea of what is the rest of this console generation going to look like 656 00:42:39.679 --> 00:42:45.920 in terms of hardware revisions, of half measures, of like pro models, 657 00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:47.920 how long the generation is going to last before we get the next gen. 658 00:42:50.320 --> 00:42:53.719 I tend this sentiment he's putting forth. I really agree with that. It's 659 00:42:54.119 --> 00:42:59.159 the beginning of this generation has been felt elongated, and now here we are 660 00:42:59.239 --> 00:43:01.840 and it does feel like we've arrived. But that does not mean it's arrived 661 00:43:01.840 --> 00:43:06.000 to the point where I'm going to be very happy about us spending more money 662 00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:08.599 on an Xbox Series Z or PlayStation five Pro next year. But I know, 663 00:43:09.079 --> 00:43:13.840 how do you feel. I mean, it is interesting because with all 664 00:43:13.880 --> 00:43:20.239 of these now current gen consoles, your Excesses, your PlayStation fives, they 665 00:43:20.400 --> 00:43:25.960 did have such a kind of slow start from the point of view of actually 666 00:43:27.000 --> 00:43:30.000 getting them into the hands of consumers because of supply chain issues. And so 667 00:43:30.039 --> 00:43:34.760 now we are in a situation wherein we are able, people are able to 668 00:43:34.760 --> 00:43:39.280 get these things now, and so I think just you know, with more 669 00:43:39.280 --> 00:43:49.400 with more actual consumer feedback, we're getting into a position wherein we can actually 670 00:43:49.639 --> 00:43:59.199 better assess how all of these things are working across market. And I want 671 00:43:59.239 --> 00:44:04.960 these consoles to stick around for a while because it's very difficult for me at 672 00:44:05.000 --> 00:44:10.599 this point, as a mirror mortal to conceive of where we go from here. 673 00:44:12.039 --> 00:44:14.679 Yeah, I mean, I think it's like, I think the perception 674 00:44:14.719 --> 00:44:16.639 of this generation is really different depending on who you ask. I think for 675 00:44:16.639 --> 00:44:19.800 some people that are like, no, three years is a long time. 676 00:44:19.880 --> 00:44:22.719 The console generation is only gonna be five years, And it's like that's people 677 00:44:22.719 --> 00:44:27.320 who remember console generations being five years, which hasn't been the case for twenty 678 00:44:27.400 --> 00:44:30.840 years. But it's in a lot of people's minds that's still like what it 679 00:44:30.920 --> 00:44:32.480 is. So it's like, you know, the generation is pretty much almost 680 00:44:32.519 --> 00:44:36.920 over already. It's no, no, that's just that's definitely not true. 681 00:44:37.159 --> 00:44:39.400 But at the same time, three years is a long time. So this 682 00:44:39.440 --> 00:44:42.880 idea that it's still the beginning, like even fill Spencer, you're saying, 683 00:44:42.880 --> 00:44:45.119 it's it's not anymore. It's the end of the beginning. So we're moving 684 00:44:45.119 --> 00:44:49.920 into this next phase. I just I don't know what these companies think they 685 00:44:49.960 --> 00:44:52.559 then do with that. You know, the rumor is Sony's going to put 686 00:44:52.599 --> 00:44:57.679 out a PS five pro next year, and I don't know if that's if 687 00:44:57.679 --> 00:45:00.599 they're working backward from we think the demand will be there, or if they're 688 00:45:00.639 --> 00:45:06.039 working backward from this is this is just our strategy, and so we're gonna 689 00:45:06.280 --> 00:45:09.159 we're gonna force it to this round this round peg to fit into a square 690 00:45:09.159 --> 00:45:15.039 hole or whatever. Yeah. I also wonder if the working backward again comes 691 00:45:15.119 --> 00:45:17.960 from the fact that when the PlayStation five launched, it was so difficult to 692 00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:22.599 get so there are a number of people who still haven't gotten it. And 693 00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:28.880 I think you have people now who hadn't gotten themselves a PS five are now 694 00:45:28.920 --> 00:45:32.519 looking at the PS five and going maybe, but they're the same, they're 695 00:45:32.519 --> 00:45:36.440 the same people that are upgrade grading their iPhone every year, that are going 696 00:45:36.480 --> 00:45:38.719 to buy those headphones. They're now at a point where they're going, well, 697 00:45:39.400 --> 00:45:45.280 let me wait, because there might be a PS five Pro. Yeah, 698 00:45:45.360 --> 00:45:50.079 and it's and Microsoft and Sony on very different, very different positions themselves, 699 00:45:50.159 --> 00:45:53.280 right because Microsoft has the Xbox Series X and the series it has a 700 00:45:53.320 --> 00:45:57.000 pro model, the Xbox Series X already and I think that's how they view 701 00:45:57.039 --> 00:46:01.679 it. But PlayStation comes up the PS five Pro that significantly surpasses the Xbox 702 00:46:01.719 --> 00:46:05.719 Series X, and then the Xbox Series X even if you know, even 703 00:46:05.719 --> 00:46:07.360 with all the power has doesn't feel very pro anymore to a lot of people. 704 00:46:07.360 --> 00:46:13.320 So it will say we literally did. I was working over it then 705 00:46:13.360 --> 00:46:17.440 when the consoles, when the new current generation of consoles launched, and we 706 00:46:17.480 --> 00:46:24.840 actually did console races between the Xbox Series X and the PlayStation five and oh 707 00:46:24.880 --> 00:46:30.920 my god, the PlayStation I've destroyed the Xbox Series X and basically every test 708 00:46:30.920 --> 00:46:32.440 we did, Yeah, and it's and then, like PlayStation is the lead 709 00:46:32.480 --> 00:46:36.840 development platform for all these studios. So even with the extra hardware power that 710 00:46:36.880 --> 00:46:40.039 the Xbox Series X does technically have, it's just it's it, but it 711 00:46:40.079 --> 00:46:43.599 doesn't get taken advantage of because that would the extra work and they don't see 712 00:46:43.639 --> 00:46:47.920 the point of doing that. Once again, circling back around xboxes, goal 713 00:46:49.239 --> 00:46:52.400 I don't think is to sell Xboxes. It's to sell the brand Xbox. 714 00:46:53.000 --> 00:46:57.880 Yes, yeah, totally. And I think that's so it's that's the whole 715 00:46:57.920 --> 00:47:00.840 thing where it's like, now, yeah, how do they communicate that to 716 00:47:01.159 --> 00:47:06.920 an audience that doesn't really understand that? And and and it was like, 717 00:47:07.199 --> 00:47:08.480 we're used to something and he said, you're you're a console kid. I 718 00:47:08.480 --> 00:47:10.159 think a lot of people are just like, hey, I'm a I'm a 719 00:47:10.159 --> 00:47:14.320 console person. This is what I'm comfortable with. And you know, and 720 00:47:14.760 --> 00:47:17.760 Bill Spencer said on Our Couch a SGF, he said, I that's like, 721 00:47:17.840 --> 00:47:21.880 that's just we're not even thinking on those terms anymore. Really, we're 722 00:47:21.920 --> 00:47:24.440 growing faster on PC and we do think of the cloud is going to be 723 00:47:24.440 --> 00:47:29.199 a thing. Yeah, but it's at the same time, it's like, 724 00:47:29.199 --> 00:47:30.320 man, it does seem like if you could sell more consoles, that would 725 00:47:30.320 --> 00:47:34.360 be the best thing for for everything here. So but you know, that 726 00:47:34.400 --> 00:47:37.079 doesn't I don't think they're interested in sort of disrupting what they are doing with 727 00:47:37.199 --> 00:47:42.159 Xbox Series SNX just to keep it with Sony, and maybe that's maybe it's 728 00:47:42.159 --> 00:47:44.199 a mistake, or maybe Sony is gonna kind of be like, kind of 729 00:47:44.239 --> 00:47:45.719 bite it a little bit because they do a PSI probe when no one wants 730 00:47:45.800 --> 00:47:47.880 one. I bet they're going to find a way to make people want one 731 00:47:47.920 --> 00:47:53.480 though, so we'll see. Uh. And Video announces DLSS three point five 732 00:47:53.880 --> 00:47:58.280 that will support a Cyberpunk DLC and Alan Wake two. This comes from Andrew 733 00:47:58.280 --> 00:48:02.239 Heaton at Destructoid Video Game and general graphical technology is advancing so fast that it's 734 00:48:02.280 --> 00:48:06.199 tough to keep up with now. In Video has announced that the latest version 735 00:48:06.239 --> 00:48:10.119 of its Deep Learning Super Sampling or DLSS d LSS is on the way, 736 00:48:10.159 --> 00:48:14.639 and it's already going to support some modern titles. Details can be found on 737 00:48:14.679 --> 00:48:17.960 en videos website. The longest short of it is DLS DLSS three point five, 738 00:48:19.039 --> 00:48:22.320 is due to release sometime this fall. It represents the next stage in 739 00:48:22.360 --> 00:48:25.400 Team Green's upscaling AI tech, with a recent video from the company explaining just 740 00:48:25.440 --> 00:48:30.840 how it's better than previous iterations. And I know people probably turn off their 741 00:48:30.840 --> 00:48:36.239 brains a little bit when they start hearing this tech talk. This if you've 742 00:48:36.280 --> 00:48:39.079 heard the hype around ray tracing for what five, six, seven years. 743 00:48:39.119 --> 00:48:45.519 Now this does feel like it's actually going to get get it there in some 744 00:48:45.559 --> 00:48:49.679 ways. So the thing with ray tracing has always been it's a tech that 745 00:48:49.719 --> 00:48:54.360 I think has been more appealing to developers than to players, but only in 746 00:48:54.400 --> 00:48:59.400 like the long term, because ray tracing what it does is it simulates the 747 00:48:59.400 --> 00:49:02.199 path that that life light takes through an environment, just like a wooden reality. 748 00:49:02.639 --> 00:49:07.679 And and so it can make really really beautiful looking games in terms of 749 00:49:07.800 --> 00:49:14.840 lighting very easily. But not every computer or console supports ray tracing. So 750 00:49:14.960 --> 00:49:17.760 for developers they have to make the old style of baked lighting, and if 751 00:49:17.760 --> 00:49:20.679 they want to support ray tracing, they can do that as well. You 752 00:49:20.679 --> 00:49:22.960 have to have both, so it's like for them it's not actually any less 753 00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:25.480 work, even though ideally long term ray tracing will be less work because you 754 00:49:25.519 --> 00:49:28.559 set up the lighting, you turn on, you turn on the switch, 755 00:49:28.599 --> 00:49:30.920 and the lighting just works how it's supposed to. Now for gamers, though, 756 00:49:31.440 --> 00:49:35.639 you look at it a game, and developers got really good at baked 757 00:49:35.719 --> 00:49:39.480 lighting, they got very good at rasterized technologies, and so games looked good 758 00:49:39.519 --> 00:49:43.679 before and they look good now with ray tracing, only sometimes they run a 759 00:49:43.719 --> 00:49:46.559 lot worse. So it's like you try to explain why ray tracing is exciting 760 00:49:46.599 --> 00:49:50.000 to players, and I don't get it because there wasn't much to get. 761 00:49:50.440 --> 00:49:53.920 Now with three point five, what it does is it's really this new it's 762 00:49:53.920 --> 00:49:59.320 an upgrade to the d noising tech. So when these ray traces, when 763 00:49:59.360 --> 00:50:01.880 these rays go into the world, they sort of they can there's no way 764 00:50:01.880 --> 00:50:06.840 they could ever do enough of these rays to hit every single possible pixel in 765 00:50:06.880 --> 00:50:08.039 the world. So what they do is they kind of spread out and then 766 00:50:08.039 --> 00:50:14.199 they create this like grainy looking version of what the lighting should work, and 767 00:50:14.199 --> 00:50:19.280 then they apply a de nooising filter to interpret and to interpret what that should 768 00:50:19.280 --> 00:50:22.039 look like. And it's been okay so far. With three point five, 769 00:50:22.119 --> 00:50:27.719 they are now at a point where they're they are doing the calculations using AI 770 00:50:27.840 --> 00:50:31.639 for upscaling and denoising at the same time, and it's much much better. 771 00:50:31.960 --> 00:50:37.920 And now the global illumination lighting is actually starting to look even better than rasterized 772 00:50:37.960 --> 00:50:43.239 lighting. It's like this could be the start of actually ray tracing. Mattering 773 00:50:43.840 --> 00:50:45.440 could be And I only say it could be because what are we talking about 774 00:50:45.440 --> 00:50:47.880 two games right now? How long is it going to take for other games 775 00:50:47.880 --> 00:50:51.800 to support this? No idea, Emma, And when I even when I 776 00:50:51.840 --> 00:50:52.960 say all this stuff, I'm excited. I don't know if anyone else is, 777 00:50:53.400 --> 00:50:58.599 but I'm gonna say this is that Alan Wake two. I think it's 778 00:50:58.639 --> 00:51:01.400 going to really benefit from this speech has so much of that game is atmospheric. 779 00:51:02.079 --> 00:51:07.199 U, So you're gonna you're gonna want the again, to me, 780 00:51:07.280 --> 00:51:13.559 this is the this is the right use of the AI. This is this 781 00:51:13.599 --> 00:51:15.239 is what we should be using AI for, because again it's like what we're 782 00:51:15.239 --> 00:51:22.679 doing is we are then better able to replicate how light and things would function 783 00:51:23.000 --> 00:51:29.519 in the real world. But again, if you're using the AI to do 784 00:51:29.599 --> 00:51:34.320 it, it's kind of automatically detecting what you can and can't handle graphically. 785 00:51:36.000 --> 00:51:40.920 So to me, like, yeah, it's it's so interesting though, because 786 00:51:40.960 --> 00:51:45.519 again it's sort of the like what I said previously of I can't quite perceive 787 00:51:45.679 --> 00:51:50.880 where we go next with like visuals as far as gaming consoles go, because 788 00:51:50.960 --> 00:51:52.239 I'm like, I feel like we're the I feel like we got to the 789 00:51:52.239 --> 00:51:55.320 top. We're like where isn't this the peak? But I guess we've always 790 00:51:55.360 --> 00:51:59.280 felt that way with every new generation. So who knows. Yeah, I 791 00:51:59.320 --> 00:52:01.719 mean it's it's the diminishing returns are definitely a thing. I mean, we're 792 00:52:01.719 --> 00:52:06.159 just not getting leaps like we used to. Everyone understands that. And it's 793 00:52:06.199 --> 00:52:09.159 like, so when these technologies come along, it's like they they have way 794 00:52:09.159 --> 00:52:13.239 more growing pains than even stuff had in the past. And there was always 795 00:52:13.280 --> 00:52:17.440 growing pains for new graphical technology. When we did get early three D lighting 796 00:52:17.480 --> 00:52:22.760 and stuff like that, that was it was only supported in a handful of 797 00:52:22.960 --> 00:52:25.440 graphics cards on PC, and it took years for that to get into a 798 00:52:25.440 --> 00:52:29.400 place. But it took about two years. This has taken much longer. 799 00:52:29.760 --> 00:52:32.960 And even even as we even as it feels like this has arrived in my 800 00:52:34.039 --> 00:52:37.119 opinion, I know, it's like, no, this is actually just the 801 00:52:37.159 --> 00:52:40.159 start of the beginning. To kind of paraphrase what phili Spetzer was saying about 802 00:52:40.159 --> 00:52:44.960 the Xbox, it's like we the technology is beginning to make sense. Just 803 00:52:45.039 --> 00:52:47.320 when you look at a screenshot now and it's look at a side by psych 804 00:52:47.360 --> 00:52:52.880 comparison, even with ray tracing, like working in d LSS three point zero 805 00:52:52.320 --> 00:52:55.800 versus three point five, it looks way better than that actually, so you 806 00:52:55.840 --> 00:53:00.159 know, without gray tracing, it is a significant improvement. So that's that's 807 00:53:00.199 --> 00:53:05.760 exciting. But yeah, I'm not saying don't rush out and go get a 808 00:53:05.800 --> 00:53:08.000 forty card from in Video based on this, because again it's going to be 809 00:53:08.039 --> 00:53:13.320 about what games support it exactly. And once again it's like you look at 810 00:53:13.360 --> 00:53:15.519 it from a consumer standpoint, and as you say, this is more exciting 811 00:53:15.599 --> 00:53:19.719 probably on the tech side into developers than it is to your sort of average 812 00:53:19.719 --> 00:53:24.000 consumer because you playing a game, you look at the game, this technology 813 00:53:24.079 --> 00:53:29.719 is in place, your brain just goes looks good, exactly, and it 814 00:53:29.719 --> 00:53:32.599 needs to be that simple. It really does. One other weird thing about 815 00:53:32.639 --> 00:53:37.119 this, and this is an M and Goldie mentioned in chat like videos solve 816 00:53:37.199 --> 00:53:39.760 some of these problems by not putting some of these new features onto older cards 817 00:53:39.760 --> 00:53:44.119 like the twenty and thirty series, and the video they do say that this 818 00:53:44.159 --> 00:53:46.920 new de noising tech that really is making the big difference here is supported on 819 00:53:47.079 --> 00:53:52.400 all deal all a new in video ray tracing cards. So if you have 820 00:53:52.440 --> 00:53:55.400 the tensor cores, which all the RTX cards do, then you get the 821 00:53:55.400 --> 00:53:58.679 benefit of that, which is weird because you don't you still don't get the 822 00:53:58.679 --> 00:54:01.679 frame generation is one of the big texts from DLSS three point zero, so 823 00:54:01.719 --> 00:54:05.239 it's like, you get some benefits from DLSS three point five, but not 824 00:54:05.320 --> 00:54:07.880 all of them dlsus three point zero, which is some stuff that's in three 825 00:54:07.920 --> 00:54:10.880 point five. So it's confusing, but that's what they say. They say 826 00:54:10.880 --> 00:54:15.280 that this stuff will work on all the cards, so we'll see. I'm 827 00:54:15.519 --> 00:54:17.000 hey, you know what, there's a lot of PC hardware guys out there. 828 00:54:17.039 --> 00:54:20.079 They're going to do a ton of testing of the stuff so you can 829 00:54:20.159 --> 00:54:25.199 enjoy that content when they're not fighting with each other. One last story here 830 00:54:25.199 --> 00:54:29.039 out of Japan. I just I'm not I'm not gonna la let off on 831 00:54:29.039 --> 00:54:31.280 it. She's over there, four years old playing Pickman right now. Pick 832 00:54:31.480 --> 00:54:35.679 four number one for the fifth week in a row and has now sold seven 833 00:54:35.760 --> 00:54:39.360 hundred twenty one thousand physical units alone. It is the best selling game in 834 00:54:39.400 --> 00:54:44.199 the series. The latest Japanese box, video game, software and hardware charts 835 00:54:44.199 --> 00:54:47.280 and this is my Nintendo news are here for the week of August fourteen, 836 00:54:47.400 --> 00:54:52.239 twenty twenty three to August twenty Nintendo's very own Pickment four continues to perform extremely 837 00:54:52.280 --> 00:54:55.000 well in the Land of the Rise in Sun and it's become the best selling 838 00:54:55.000 --> 00:54:59.599 game in the entire Pickman franchise, selling seven hundred twenty one thousand, two 839 00:54:59.639 --> 00:55:02.360 hundred one box copies. The best selling game a best selling the system this 840 00:55:02.360 --> 00:55:05.679 week. In the Land of the Rise of Sun is the Nintendo Switch family 841 00:55:05.679 --> 00:55:08.840 of consoles, which shifted in additional seventy seven thousand, seven hundred and eighty 842 00:55:08.920 --> 00:55:13.239 units, which put it above the PlayStation five, which had about thirty eight 843 00:55:13.239 --> 00:55:19.760 thousand units sold. Pickman for selling almost a million cost seven under fifty thousand 844 00:55:20.159 --> 00:55:23.400 physical units in one country and just physical, not digital. I know. 845 00:55:23.920 --> 00:55:28.159 Just I am so happy. I'm so happy that this game is just crushing 846 00:55:28.199 --> 00:55:30.800 it. So yeah. I wish it would have been a little bit higher 847 00:55:30.800 --> 00:55:32.039 on the Sircano report, but it did. It did fine enough on there, 848 00:55:32.079 --> 00:55:35.920 but in Japan it is just this. It's turned into like I was 849 00:55:35.960 --> 00:55:39.199 almost a Splatoon like success. Now nothing's been spat there, but it's it's 850 00:55:39.440 --> 00:55:44.159 having that Switch effect and then some And I'm pretty excited about this. You 851 00:55:44.239 --> 00:55:47.679 are you Pickman fan? I just I love Pickman four. Oh I've played 852 00:55:47.679 --> 00:55:51.440 a little bit of Pickman. I'm not like deeply into Pickman, but I 853 00:55:51.519 --> 00:55:53.920 you know, I think exactly what you brought up of, Like your daughter 854 00:55:54.039 --> 00:56:00.719 is over there playing Pickman right now, and that is the power of the 855 00:56:00.800 --> 00:56:06.440 Nintendo Switch. And again, also in a country like Japan wherein you know, 856 00:56:06.519 --> 00:56:10.719 people rely so much more on public transportation, the Switch is truly brilliant 857 00:56:10.719 --> 00:56:13.559 because you can take it with you can play it on the train on your 858 00:56:13.559 --> 00:56:15.880 way to work, under a school, whatever the case may be. So 859 00:56:16.519 --> 00:56:21.719 I mean, just to speak to that point in terms of like what's popular 860 00:56:21.800 --> 00:56:24.480 in Japan, this is one of those weeks, like many weeks in Japan, 861 00:56:24.599 --> 00:56:30.280 where the top ten software sales every single game as a Nintendo Switch game. 862 00:56:30.519 --> 00:56:31.920 So it's like, yeah, PlayStation five selling pretty good, selling a 863 00:56:31.920 --> 00:56:36.599 little bit faster than four. It's not selling software that well, not in 864 00:56:36.639 --> 00:56:39.719 anywhere compared to what the Switch is doing. Animal Crossing New Horizons in number 865 00:56:39.760 --> 00:56:44.360 ten with five thousand, six hundred and ninety nine physical copy sold, and 866 00:56:44.519 --> 00:56:50.079 no physical PlayStation game is sold better than that this week. So it's it 867 00:56:50.199 --> 00:56:52.440 is people like using their switch and they like buying games for their switch in 868 00:56:52.519 --> 00:56:55.760 Japan, and when it comes to a big game that gets properly marketed, 869 00:56:55.880 --> 00:57:00.760 Japan, like Pickman did, there's a chance for it to blast stuff into 870 00:57:00.840 --> 00:57:02.559 orbit. Oh, yeah, there we are. It was very evident to 871 00:57:02.559 --> 00:57:06.960 me when I was in Japan. It was definitely a Nintendo switch. Uh 872 00:57:07.079 --> 00:57:10.840 Town Tokyo, shall we say? I mean literally, like on the subway 873 00:57:12.159 --> 00:57:16.599 they would show ads for Tears of the Kingdom. It's everywhere. Street pass. 874 00:57:16.599 --> 00:57:19.360 I wish, I wish to switch had street pass. I hope that's 875 00:57:19.400 --> 00:57:21.239 the next thing they bring are one of the things they bring back for the 876 00:57:21.280 --> 00:57:22.800 next switch? Wait? Was that the one with the whin the DS where 877 00:57:22.800 --> 00:57:25.480 you would like walk by people and then you could meet up with them and 878 00:57:25.559 --> 00:57:30.519 like meetopia basically, yes, you basically got you would three DS would the 879 00:57:31.280 --> 00:57:35.079 little light on it would turn green when would passed on the street pass? 880 00:57:35.159 --> 00:57:37.039 Yes, And I would always kind of I used to walk around with my 881 00:57:37.159 --> 00:57:40.079 DS in my pocket when I because I was a tour guide at Universal for 882 00:57:40.239 --> 00:57:43.719 so long, and so when I was giving VIP tours and I was walking 883 00:57:43.760 --> 00:57:45.800 around the park with my guests, I would just like put my DS in 884 00:57:45.840 --> 00:57:51.400 the pocket of my uniform pants so that I could just collect people. You 885 00:57:51.400 --> 00:57:55.880 get any any famous people's street passes or oh, no famous people, but 886 00:57:57.400 --> 00:58:00.360 got the actual Reggie once. You could go to packs or something that they 887 00:58:00.360 --> 00:58:04.639 were when they would send out to everybody. But I got Rand's real one 888 00:58:04.719 --> 00:58:07.199 once, and that was very cool. That's sick. I mean, you 889 00:58:07.239 --> 00:58:12.639 know, just a reminder to everybody that Brie Larson used her real given name 890 00:58:13.719 --> 00:58:20.559 on the opening night of Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios, Hollywood. You 891 00:58:20.599 --> 00:58:24.360 could see her name on the boards because they gave everybody the little wrist things. 892 00:58:24.480 --> 00:58:29.679 But yeah, literally her name was Brie Larson. She's done some work 893 00:58:29.719 --> 00:58:30.440 with Nintendo, right, she's done some ads, I think, so, 894 00:58:30.559 --> 00:58:35.280 yeah, yeah, she's a yeah, she she's like fully in this. 895 00:58:36.519 --> 00:58:40.880 Yeah that she should have been Lars Breeson. Yeah, Lars Breeson, absolutely 896 00:58:42.119 --> 00:58:44.960 absolutely, but yeah, I mean it was so funny because again it's like 897 00:58:45.000 --> 00:58:46.400 I had seen her earlier in the night, and then I was like looking 898 00:58:46.440 --> 00:58:51.280 at the at the boards of where the rankings were of everybody doing the stuff 899 00:58:51.280 --> 00:58:53.679 with their power up bands, and it was just like Brie Larson. Okay, 900 00:58:53.800 --> 00:58:58.199 that's fantastic. All right, we got a pull from yesterday. We 901 00:58:58.239 --> 00:59:01.320 were going to discuss the results of are You Excited for Xbox's Release Schedule? 902 00:59:01.360 --> 00:59:06.159 After Starfield. I'm gonna say yes, there's a lot because I'm excited about 903 00:59:06.159 --> 00:59:08.000 a lot of it. Twenty seven percent also said yes, there's a lot, 904 00:59:08.039 --> 00:59:12.480 twenty seven percent and say yes one or two things. Thirty two percent 905 00:59:12.519 --> 00:59:15.199 said no, there's nothing, and fourteen percent says no, I'm completely focused 906 00:59:15.280 --> 00:59:21.599 on Starfield. I think it's completely fair to be like, listen, Starfield's 907 00:59:21.599 --> 00:59:22.400 coming out, and that's a big game, one I can play for a 908 00:59:22.480 --> 00:59:25.440 long time. Whenever comes in, I'll wait until, like you're something else 909 00:59:25.519 --> 00:59:30.440 is good after that. For now, I'm playing Starfield. But are you 910 00:59:30.440 --> 00:59:32.639 excited about Starfielders? But that's the RPG has ever been in your game? 911 00:59:32.679 --> 00:59:37.639 I know it's like a case for some people in Yeah, I've I've played 912 00:59:37.719 --> 00:59:45.800 some Fallout and I uh, you know, looking back at the Elder Scrolls 913 00:59:45.840 --> 00:59:50.960 series, I played a lot of Elder Scrolls three Moro wind on thee I 914 00:59:50.960 --> 00:59:55.800 guess og Xbox is what it was. But yeah, look I look at 915 00:59:55.840 --> 01:00:00.079 Starfield though, and I go, this is too much. I also, 916 01:00:00.119 --> 01:00:06.519 like, don't love open world games as much as other people do. I'm 917 01:00:06.559 --> 01:00:09.599 a I'm a story game kind of gal. For me. I think that 918 01:00:09.679 --> 01:00:15.079 like mass effects strikes the perfect balance of me feeling like I have a lot 919 01:00:15.159 --> 01:00:19.039 of autonomy to do different things and make a lot of different choices, but 920 01:00:19.199 --> 01:00:22.440 still there is a nice, a nice story for me to follow that feels 921 01:00:22.440 --> 01:00:25.199 good to go back to. Which or three was the same way I felt. 922 01:00:25.239 --> 01:00:29.400 You know that that is one of the games that has the most incredibly 923 01:00:29.440 --> 01:00:32.000 executed side quests. They're different, they're interesting, they really add a lot 924 01:00:32.000 --> 01:00:37.760 of flavor to the game. But again, the side quests very story heavy. 925 01:00:37.039 --> 01:00:39.119 You learn a lot about the world, you learn a lot about the 926 01:00:39.199 --> 01:00:46.800 characters involved, and also very spiritually true to how I feel. The Witcher 927 01:00:46.840 --> 01:00:50.679 books are, which obviously started as a series of short story so it almost 928 01:00:50.679 --> 01:00:52.320 feels like, oh, I'm like picking and choosing little short stories to go 929 01:00:52.360 --> 01:00:55.679 do. Yeah, I mean Starfield to me, I just feel like, 930 01:00:55.679 --> 01:01:00.880 oh my god, this is where do I even begin? And you know, 931 01:01:01.280 --> 01:01:06.159 it comes out the same day that Baldishkate three comes out for the PlayStation 932 01:01:06.199 --> 01:01:14.639 five, which I fully intend on playing. Definitely a lot of ye but 933 01:01:14.639 --> 01:01:16.920 you're going to find plenty of stories in there. Yeah, exactly like that. 934 01:01:16.920 --> 01:01:21.480 That to me is the perfect amount of open world and decision making. 935 01:01:22.480 --> 01:01:24.800 All right, We got a new poll going up while I do that, 936 01:01:24.840 --> 01:01:28.079 though, Ema, why don't you tell people where they can find you what 937 01:01:28.079 --> 01:01:30.360 you have going on? Things like that? Yeah? Absolutely so, I'm 938 01:01:30.480 --> 01:01:35.280 M A Fife. You can find me all over the internet at my name 939 01:01:35.440 --> 01:01:37.800 M A Fife, except on TikTok, where I'm the M A Fife because 940 01:01:37.920 --> 01:01:42.840 M A Fife was taken. I don't really I know, I don't really 941 01:01:42.880 --> 01:01:46.800 like make TikTok's, but I enjoy watching TikTok's so, but I needed to 942 01:01:46.840 --> 01:01:52.320 own my name in some capacity. Yeah, I'm on all the threads and 943 01:01:52.360 --> 01:01:57.639 the Blue Skies and the I don't know, because I feel like it's the 944 01:01:57.719 --> 01:02:00.960 death of twitter x. It's who knows, it's coming, who knows. 945 01:02:01.239 --> 01:02:07.280 But I still have that account also, And yeah, I'm working on a 946 01:02:07.280 --> 01:02:12.800 bunch of stuff over at game Spot. Got a new series on the Horizon, 947 01:02:13.519 --> 01:02:17.400 which I will divulge more about as we get closer to it. And 948 01:02:19.679 --> 01:02:22.679 that's what's happening with me, man, you know, just send that show 949 01:02:22.840 --> 01:02:28.800 together to check that out for sure. Let's see the new poll going up 950 01:02:28.840 --> 01:02:31.960 on YouTube dot com slash giant bomb under the community tab there, what do 951 01:02:32.000 --> 01:02:36.199 you think Sony is doing with Days Gone. It's making a game in a 952 01:02:36.239 --> 01:02:37.760 movie, it's making a movie but no game. It's making a game but 953 01:02:37.760 --> 01:02:43.519 no movie, or it's not making anything Days Gone. You can vote on 954 01:02:43.519 --> 01:02:45.760 that and we'll talk about it on Games Mornings. On Monday, you're on 955 01:02:45.800 --> 01:02:50.880 giant bomb dot com speaking a giant bomb. It's Friday. That means upf 956 01:02:51.199 --> 01:02:53.800 we are gonna play Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I gotta go see if we've got 957 01:02:53.800 --> 01:02:57.719 codes right. I need to tell Dan to go buy the game, but 958 01:02:57.800 --> 01:03:00.039 we're gonna play that, and then if we on out of Steam there we 959 01:03:00.159 --> 01:03:06.719 might play a Ews New Stadium Stampede thirty player mode. No idea how many 960 01:03:06.760 --> 01:03:09.199 people are playing that online. So and again I said this on Twitter, 961 01:03:09.199 --> 01:03:12.360 don't go out and rush out and buy that game to play with us because 962 01:03:12.360 --> 01:03:15.039 we might not even end up playing. But if you already have it and 963 01:03:15.079 --> 01:03:16.840 you want a chance, maybe have it loaded and ready to go and we 964 01:03:16.840 --> 01:03:19.599 can all hop on on the same time and see if we can all just 965 01:03:19.639 --> 01:03:22.039 get into the same game. And that could be fun. But no idea 966 01:03:22.039 --> 01:03:23.360 how that's going to work. So that will be experimental. Things could go 967 01:03:23.400 --> 01:03:28.920 wrong, so we'll see. Is it on game Pass, Colonel Sanders, 968 01:03:28.920 --> 01:03:30.679 Marine, Colonel Sanders. I didn't think that it was on game pass. 969 01:03:30.719 --> 01:03:34.239 Oh, game pass, that's right. Texas Chainsaw is on game bass. 970 01:03:34.280 --> 01:03:37.199 That's right. That's what we're talking about. I did mention that that's what 971 01:03:37.199 --> 01:03:38.719 we'll do do the game pass. It was on the it was even on 972 01:03:38.760 --> 01:03:44.760 the list of the in video games. That's what I'll play it through. 973 01:03:44.800 --> 01:03:46.840 Okay, yes it is. You is in about an hour. We're starting 974 01:03:46.880 --> 01:03:52.519 about an hour one pm. I'm pretty sure I think that's right. Okay, 975 01:03:52.840 --> 01:03:54.280 Emma, thank you so much for spending today talking with me about video 976 01:03:54.280 --> 01:03:59.639 games. I really appreciate it. Yeah, thanks for having me always happy 977 01:03:59.800 --> 01:04:06.519 to expound upon the state of gaming as it were. It's it's good stuff, 978 01:04:06.519 --> 01:04:09.880 it's a good time. I really appreciate it. Again, thank you 979 01:04:09.920 --> 01:04:12.800 everybody for watching. You're the best audience in gaming. Until next time, 980 01:04:12.840 --> 01:04:17.599 have a good one, to take care of yourself, and goodbye. I